Is education being measured to death?
...the thinking behind incessant testing is akin to treating a child suffering from hypothermia by repeatedly taking his or her temperature.
-- Jesse Hagopian
The latest obsession, for instance, is to develop and use new tests, not for assessing academic knowledge and skills, but to ascertain how well schools and teachers have developed children's character, such as their self control, reflection, and persistence. As social scientist Angela Duckwork recently noted with concern in her New York Times op-ed, nine California school districts are adding "measures of character into their accountability systems" this testing season. Continue here....
-- Jeff Bryant
